Beyond checklists: toward an ethical-constructive technology assessment
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Beyond checklists: toward an ethical-constructive technology assessment
While many technology assessments (TAs) formally conducted by TA organizations in Europe and the USA have examined the implications of new technologies for ‘quantifiable risks’ regarding safety, health or the environment, they have largely ignored the ethical implications of those technologies. Recently, ethicists and philosophers have tried to fill this gap by introducing tools for ethical tec...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Responsible Innovation
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2329-9460,2329-9037
DOI: 10.1080/23299460.2014.992769